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Prologue: Half-Forgotten Memories --
The Long and Winding Road --
The Advocates of Revolt --
A Jewish State in the Land of Israel --
Looking for Partners: Revisionism in Transition --
The End of the Socialist Zionist Dream --
The First Begin Government --
The Cost of Camp David --
Lebanon: The Escape of the Golem --
Defeat from the Jaws of Victory --
Begin's Holocaust Trauma --
The Massacre at Sabra and Shatilla and its Consequences --
Shamir: The Man from Lehi --
Above and Below Ground --
Outlawing the Palestinians --
Between Information and Propaganda --
The Year of Reckoning --
The Shamir Plan --
Forward to the Edge --
Postscript: Into the 21st Century: Enter Sharon.

Abstract:

A critical appraisal of the Likud government's rule from 1977-1992. The different ideological origins of both Begin and Shamir are examined as well as how they were influenced by pre-war nationalist models in Pilsudski's Poland and Mussolini's Italy.Read more...